As part of the Disney VoluntEARS program, I worked Minnie's Moonlit Madness inside Disneyland Park. It's an annual scavenger hunt hosted afterhours and draws participants from the various west-coast based Disney business units, as well as ESPN and ABC. The proceeds from the registration benefit a local charity, this year being a local Orange County Foodbank.
I got to meet a lot of great people from across the company, and had a pleasant time overall, but there are so many SG/SCMT stories to tell.
Before I start, put into context that these are all DLR CMs, as well Walt Disney Company, ABC, and ESPN Employees. For the most part, they are relatively mature and well-educated.
A Cast TV Hostess interviewing a Goat. Yes, a Cast TV CM interviewed a Goat. This is going to make for some interesting viewing when it airs.
The fact that so many people had trouble making a simple belt clip work. The groups participating were bound together at the waist by a rope. Despite the relative easy nature of setting it up (take belt clip, put on belt, repeat with other person), we still had people walking around holding their ropes like they were live snakes.
One guy asked us if they could keep the rope, as they had become "emotionally bonded" to it
. Despite repeated yells not to run, people running (remember, groups of 3-4 are tied together at the waist....pretty interesting sight when one person is running and the others don't want to; horrific if you think that if someone had tripped, their party would basically drag them screaming along the floor).
At the scarier end of this, people getting frantic towards the end and running about like mad. We nearly had a collision between a frantic group and a slow moving one with someone in a wheelchair
. For the most part, it was quite nice, and I look forward to volunteering to work it again next year. But, really, being tied to your peers and set in a competetive situation brings out the worst in people sometimes, eh?
